I think that actually goes with this. Biden's gift seems to me that he works hard on serious issues but he doesn't take himself seriously so he's probably easier to work with. I just imagine him as the guy who cracks jokes during serious negotiations to ease the tension.

Just watch when the next natural disaster hits their district, they'll be begging for it. Fucking assholes.

this is why, in my darker fantasies, the admin would take the red states seriously when they vote against shit like this. And by take them seriously I mean deny federal disaster assistance when they get hit, after all they sent people to congress who don't believe in those things.

Now the "good" side of me says we should help no matter what, this is America for fuck's sake. The darker side of me says screw 'em, let 'em drown, drink cruddy water, get disease and decrease the surplus population.

this is why, in my darker fantasies, the admin would take the red states seriously when they vote against shit like this. And by take them seriously I mean deny federal disaster assistance when they get hit, after all they sent people to congress who don't believe in those things.

Now the "good" side of me says we should help no matter what, this is America for fuck's sake. The darker side of me says screw 'em, let 'em drown, drink cruddy water, get disease and decrease the surplus population.

I kind of feel that way sometimes I admit but it doesn't last for long because I'm a bleeding heart after all. Plus, the kids that live in those states and districts shouldn't be punished because their parents and grandparents are voting for idiots.

Have to admit though, I'm getting tired of the "Help me government when my district or state needs help" but "Fuck you if you live anywhere else." We're all in this together ultimately. And despite their excuses. This isn't about the debt. It's not about the debt at all.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While federal and state government authorities identified Superstorm Sandy as the second costliest storm in U.S. history at over $71.3 billion in damages, this figure does not reflect the emotional costs. Residents in the ZIP codes most affected by Superstorm Sandy experienced a 25% increase in depression diagnoses in the six weeks immediately following the storm. Similarly, those living elsewhere in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut also saw an increase in depression diagnoses of 17% compared to pre-storm levels.

To begin with, left and right have different understandings of fairness. The left tends to focus on equality, with an emphasis on equality of outcome. In contrast, the right cares exclusively about proportionality of outcome: if outcomes are equalized when deservingness isn’t the same, they consider that an abomination. This is why welfare is such a contentious issue. When social conservatives look at people who might have contributed to their own sorry state, they’re deeply offended by the thought of bailing them out, but on the left, compassion for those who are suffering is more widespread. There’s a basic difference in moral attitude about how each side thinks about “fairness.”

Thing about it is that the GOP has gerrymandered the country so effectively that they'd actually cement their reelections by driving the country into a depression in order to pressure Obama into killing Medicare.

If I had the time, I'm sure I could come up with disaster declarations and demands for the rest of 'em. Hypocrites one and all. Huelskamp claims to be fiscally responsible and wants offsets, but he actually is on the record as questioning the need for Sandy relief at all.

Ayn Rand fits this list for many reasons, but the biggest is that she had absolutely no sense of humor. You can smoke a whole ounce of the world's most potent marijuana and not laugh a single time reading one of Rand's books.

If I had the time, I'm sure I could come up with disaster declarations and demands for the rest of 'em. Hypocrites one and all. Huelskamp claims to be fiscally responsible and wants offsets, but he actually is on the record as questioning the need for Sandy relief at all.

I've got a red, a green, and a blue/violet now. Fearless Hunter loses interest in any one color after more than a half-dozen bloodless catches, but OMG LOOK AT THE GREEN THING! OMG NOW LOOK AT THE BLUE THING!

Forget about the periodic rearrangement of towns or communities. Droughts stick around. And the current one is one heck of a mess for Kansas farmers and the local economy. Disaster declarations and aid relief forthcoming. No problem. Sandy strikes? Kansas votes against it.

Pretty much. And then the spiteful fuckers have teh nerve to claim that they stand for family values. A party of family values doesn't have a good chunk of its membership vote against relief for victims of a disaster.

Thing about it is that the GOP has gerrymandered the country so effectively that they'd actually cement their reelections by driving the country into a depression in order to pressure Obama into killing Medicare.

Disagree (mostly). They face the O'Donnell Angle. That is, their gerrymandering has put many of them in a painful fork: win their primary, or win their election. Yes, for a while they can do both. But in most of the gerrymander locations they're facing primaries from the right, for which the only winning answer is to be "nuttier than thou". As already seen the internet never forgets, nor do the moderate republicans. Push it too far and they either stay home (which happened a lot this past election) or vote the other way.

It isn't going to be soon, but most of them will be destroyed by their success.

this is why, in my darker fantasies, the admin would take the red states seriously when they vote against shit like this. And by take them seriously I mean deny federal disaster assistance when they get hit, after all they sent people to congress who don't believe in those things.

Now the "good" side of me says we should help no matter what, this is America for fuck's sake. The darker side of me says screw 'em, let 'em drown, drink cruddy water, get disease and decrease the surplus population.

Desire to see poetic justice. But you also have to realize that those who will get the short end of the relief stick when said disaster hits is not going to be these politicians, or their wealthy backers.

Disagree (mostly). They face the O'Donnell Angle. That is, their gerrymandering has put many of them in a painful fork: win their primary, or win their election. Yes, for a while they can do both. But in most of the gerrymander locations they're facing primaries from the right, for which the only winning answer is to be "nuttier than thou". As already seen the internet never forgets, nor do the moderate republicans. Push it too far and they either stay home (which happened a lot this past election) or vote the other way.

It isn't going to be soon, but most of them will be destroyed by their success.

True, but in the mean time, the crazies in the party are demanding that they "stare down" Obama, with the truly nutty fuckers suggesting that the GOP just let the country slam into the debt limit in order to force the sort of cuts they think need to happen. "We take in enough taxes to cover our debts, we'll just have to figure out what we can pay for with what's left over!"

True, but in the mean time, the crazies in the party are demanding that they "stare down" Obama, with the truly nutty fuckers suggesting that the GOP just let the country slam into the debt limit in order to force the sort of cuts they think need to happen. "We take in enough taxes to cover our debts, we'll just have to figure out what we can pay for with what's left over!"

And true as well.

fwiw, I'm in agreement with the recent proposal (forgot where) to start pointing to this framing. The GOP is acting like the people on a part-time salary who want to save on their bills by refusing to pay the mortgage instead of working more hours.

Wegelin & Co, the oldest Swiss private bank, said on Thursday it would shut its doors permanently after more than 2 1/2 centuries, following its guilty plea to charges of helping wealthy Americans evade taxes through secret accounts.

The plea, in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, marks the death knell for one of Switzerland's most storied banks, whose original European clients pre-date the American Revolution. It is also potentially a major turning point in a battle by U.S. authorities against Swiss bank secrecy.

A major question was left hanging by the plea: Has the bank turned over, or does it plan to disclose, names of American clients to U.S. authorities? That is a key demand in a broad U.S. investigation of tax evasion through Swiss banks.

"It is unclear whether the bank was required to turn over American client names who held secret Swiss bank accounts," said Jeffrey Neiman, a former federal prosecutor involved in other Swiss bank investigations who is now in private law practice in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

I blame Congress for doing what they have done for years.. They can't resist pork on a unrelated issues of relief. How many Billions of dollars in the Relief bill would send Billions of dollars to Alaska for fisheries, The gulf coast and California and lets not forget millions for planting trees or some such nonsense in Ohio. Clean the bill up for only relieve to those effected by Sandy. I don't think Congress can do that.

I blame Congress for doing what they have done for years.. They can't resist pork on a unrelated issues of relief. How many Billions of dollars in the Relief bill would send Billions of dollars to Alaska for fisheries, The gulf coast and California and lets not forget millions for planting trees or some such nonsense in Ohio. Clean the bill up for only relieve to those effected by Sandy. I don't think Congress can do that.

Problem is to me, there's a culture of "pork for me is good" but "pork for you and yours is terrible terrible." Ron Paul was a huge pork hoarder during his time in Congress. I don't blame him for fighting for his constiuents but I do sure as hell blame him for doing while acting like other more important issues were just "waste" and not to mention his arrogant act of acting like he's the only principled person in Congress.

Have You Ever Wondered What Compells Your Conservative Relatives to Vote the Way They Do?

It's not really a good article. It's basically just psychobabble MBF.

If you ask most 'Conservatives' questions about their beliefs of fairness, etc., you're not going to find that they're very different from anyone else. Yes, there will be some small differences, but by and large Conservatives are voting against their best interests and their own beliefs. And they do so because they are deliberately confused by hate.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) tells Starting Point that although he disagreed with Speaker John Boehner for not holding the vote on Hurricane Sandy relief Tuesday night, they are getting results. Later in the interview, he criticizes and disagrees with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for saying that there is pork in the bill.

Rep. King says, “With all due respect, Darrell Issa is 1,000 percent wrong. There is absolutely no pork in the bill. There were some items that were added in the Senate, involving Alaska for one, which is about less than one percent of the bill…. Every one of those items was removed from the House bill. And I wish Darrell Issa had learned that and looked into that before he went public and said that my constituents should not get their homes rebuilt….”

If you ask most 'Conservatives' questions about their beliefs of fairness, etc., you're not going to find that they're very different from anyone else. Yes, there will be some small differences, but by and large Conservatives are voting against their best interests and their own beliefs. And they do so because they are deliberately confused by hate.

I think the problem is many conservative voters genuinely believe that the Republican party champions individual rights and small government. They don't. They're just as and I'd argue more guilty of supporting measures that impede individual rights and liberties and are okay with expanding the government if it suits their agenda.

You've identified about $400 million out of the $60b Sandy aid. It wasn't billions as you intimate.

Of that, $150m is for fisheries assistance, including cleaning up damage done by the Japanese tsunami (a natural disaster of epic proportions and scope/size).

The rest includes repairing damage to the Smithsonian due to the DC quake last year, and other items that are unrelated to Sandy. Some of that is truly worthwhile undertakings, and those items should have been addressed separately but weren't.

And for what it's worth, those items were pulled from the version that the House could have voted on - but Boehner chose not to.

This wasn't some pork laden package as the GOP and right wing intimate. It was actually a prudent and pared down bill.

It included re-funding the NFIP, which not only helps current #Sandy victims, but future flood victims.

A day after Vice President Joe Biden "killed it" on C-SPAN2, a new White House petition asks the Obama administration to approve the filming of a regular C-SPAN show starring the veep.

"Vice President Joe Biden has a demonstrated ability to bring people together, whether at the negotiating table or at the neighborhood diner," writes the creator "Nathan B." of Washington, D.C. "We, therefore, urge the Obama Administration to authorize the production of a recurring C-SPAN television program featuring the daily activities and interactions of the Vice President with elected officials, foreign dignitaries and everyday American families.

"Such a program would educate the American public about the duties and responsibilities of their Vice President, while providing a glimpse of the lighthearted side of politics even in the midst of contentious and divisive national debates."

If you ask most 'Conservatives' questions about their beliefs of fairness, etc., you're not going to find that they're very different from anyone else. Yes, there will be some small differences, but by and large Conservatives are voting against their best interests and their own beliefs. And they do so because they are deliberately confused by hate.

I thought the author did a good job of explaining the Right's eternal fear of someone getting something they did not earn or otherwise do not deserve. You know, like all those welfare queens and their big screen TV's . . . .

I think the problem is many conservative voters genuinely believe that the Republican party champions individual rights and small government. They don't. They're just as and I'd argue more guilty of supporting measures that impede individual rights and liberties and are okay with expanding the government if it suits their agenda.

I always like reminding the CSA apologists that the state rights they claim that the CSA was fighting for, the big one among them was slavery. So, yeah, states rights is true, they were fighting for a state's right for human beings to own other human beings as property. You don't get to lecture me on freedom and liberty when you defend a society that permitted that.

I always like reminding the CSA apologists that the state rights they claim that the CSA was fighting for, the big one among them was slavery. So, yeah, states rights is true, they were fighting for a state's right for human beings to own other human beings as property. You don't get to lecture me on freedom and liberty when you defend a society that permitted that.

The state's rights argument is horseshit because they were actively fighting against the rights of state's they disagreed with.

And ditto that with Civil Rights. It's not freedom and liberty to deny equal access to schools, restaurants, etc because of race and it's definitely not tyrannical for the federal government to stop that especially considering that the subject of said discrimination laws weren't even allowed to vote.

Big night tonight. It's the Cotton bowl and a huge party out in the Oklahoma country. Go OU! I heard they are BBQ'ing a whole Deer tonight. I don't eat that stuff so Winston is going to be excited to eat when I get home. I'll eat the Tater salad and veggies tonight.

Michael Gugliotti, chief of police in Waterbury, Conn., decided to stop issuing gun show permits on the day after the nearby Newtown massacre.

“I was just sitting home, really just thinking about what I need to do as a police chief during this type of crisis to ensure that our citizens are feeling safe and comfortable,” Gugliotti told TPM on Friday.

It happened that the day before, one of his aides had a scheduled meeting with a representative of Westchester Collectors Inc., which wanted to hold a firearm and knife show in Waterbury on Jan. 12 and 13. (According to The American-Republican newspaper, the company planned to hold the show at the convention center of the CoCo Key Water Resort Hotel on East Main Street.) Waterbury, a city of 110,000, is about 20 miles northeast of Newtown.

“Out of respect and honor for those 26 folks that lost their life in Newtown, I made the decision then and there to send the promoter a message that I would not be signing any permit for any gun show until further notice,” Gugliotti said.

Big night tonight. It's the Cotton bowl and a huge party out in the Oklahoma country. Go OU! I heard they are BBQ'ing a whole Deer tonight. I don't eat that stuff so Winston is going to be excited to eat when I get home. I'll eat the Tater salad and veggies tonight.

Oh man, it's too bad that you don't like venison meat. I'd eat it more often if I could.

Wow, that really puts in perspective! I mean obviously Government budgeting is far more complex than family income but that's a great way to present the information in a way that most all of us can relate to.

Also it illustrates how totally out of whack our nations finances are.

If you transpose what they the outstanding credit card balance into a different term - let's say - mortgage, those numbers take on a slightly different connotation. Yes, there's budget problems, but a good part of that debt is due to housekeeping - the actual nuts and bolts of maintaining the nation, whether it's national defense and costs associated, or infrastructure, etc.

Have to admit though, I'm getting tired of the "Help me government when my district or state needs help" but "Fuck you if you live anywhere else." We're all in this together ultimately. And despite their excuses. This isn't about the debt. It's not about the debt at all.

Of course it isn't. Just as Newt said, it is right-wing social engineering; they want to take the country back to at least 1928.

If you transpose what they the outstanding credit card balance into a different term - let's say - mortgage, those numbers take on a slightly different connotation. Yes, there's budget problems, but a good part of that debt is due to housekeeping - the actual nuts and bolts of maintaining the nation, whether it's national defense and costs associated, or infrastructure, etc.

Not exactly frivolous costs that can be pared down.

It certainly puts into perspective the idea that the national deficit can be magicked away through a year or three of austerity.

Rather like trying to pay off the mortgage on the family ranch by shooting every last head of cattle and selling the meat in a fire sale.

I've got a red, a green, and a blue/violet now. Fearless Hunter loses interest in any one color after more than a half-dozen bloodless catches, but OMG LOOK AT THE GREEN THING! OMG NOW LOOK AT THE BLUE THING!

Must know where you got this. Although my boys do good with red, it'll be nice to change things up and make them crazier.

Christ, why do people always have to burn things? Maybe Fredric Wertham should have looked into that.

The symbolism behind it. Burn something and you're pretty much erasing it. But yeah I can't imagine ever doing it outside your usual childish escape of burning army men. But a book? video game? or any work of art? No.

If a household could borrow 30 year money @ less than 3% and knew future income would grow faster than that, then running up the credit card would be a no brainer as long as you spend the borrowed money on essentials or investments (like infrastructure) with a good rate of return...

The symbolism behind it. Burn something and you're pretty much erasing it. But yeah I can't imagine ever doing it outside your usual childish escape of burning army men. But a book? video game? or any work of art? No.

If a household could borrow 30 year money @ less than 3% and knew future income would grow faster than that, then running up the credit card would be a no brainer as long as you spend the borrowed money on essentials or investments (like infrastructure) with a good rate of return...

It only works if the house increases in value and greedy people don't use the same money over and over and then make your monthly repayments the basis for the world economy.

Absolutely. And yeah it is free speech and yet I always cringe a bit seeing or hearing about a mass burning of something.

I can't even diagnose whatever those people have. For myself, I see it as a coping mechanism for people who are petrified by reality and need scapegoats to project problems onto. If it makes them feel better and they're not confiscating things, then so be it, as stupid and nonsensical as it is. The biggest problem I see is that these types of symbolic gestures and scapegoats divert attention from actual problems.

Burning things is so 12th century. I don't consider anything erased from existence unless it's been atomized with a Tesla Energy Beam.

Well it's the symbolism I guess. I think that's why book burning was so popular in Nazi Germany because they saw the books being burned as somehow "erasing" them and their influence from German society and culture.

I can't even diagnose whatever those people have. For myself, I see it as a coping mechanism for people who are petrified by reality and need scapegoats to project problems onto. If it makes them feel better and they're not confiscating things, then so be it, as stupid and nonsensical as it is. The biggest problem I see is that these types of symbolic gestures and scapegoats divert attention from actual problems.

In other news, I went for a bike ride today...wasn't feeling it at first and was tempted to just do a 12 mile flat loop, but turned left into the hills to see how I did...ended up being a nice 23 mile ride with a 765 foot climb...which I made without stopping...that always feels good.

If a household could borrow 30 year money @ less than 3% and knew future income would grow faster than that, then running up the credit card would be a no brainer as long as you spend the borrowed money on essentials or investments (like infrastructure) with a good rate of return...

This is, in fact, what a lot of rich people did, cashing out the equity in their home and putting it into ventures that paid it back faster than it went out.

Well it's the symbolism I guess. I think that's why book burning was so popular in Nazi Germany because they saw the books being burned as somehow "erasing" them and their influence from German society and culture.

Well, back then it had an actual purpose behind it. Burn the books and the people no longer have any avenue to learn about anything, and therefore are easier to control (the anti-learning thing is big with the fire-breathing religious types because learned people tend to question bullshit). Obviously that tactic would work for shit in today's social-media world.

I see what you did there. Of those, there's only two essentials. The Single Malt (I prefer a good gin over Scotch, but that's getting picky) and gaffer's tape - in some ways more versatile than duct tape.

And again what's not mentioned is the fact that all it takes to increase the family income is to quit giving various debters relief, and start charging more for the provided services. IOW, close the loopholes and raise the taxes.

If a household could borrow 30 year money @ less than 3% and knew future income would grow faster than that, then running up the credit card would be a no brainer as long as you spend the borrowed money on essentials or investments (like infrastructure) with a good rate of return...

also - and somebody check my arithmetic - since the normal percentage of the annual federal budget outlay spent on debt service is about 6%, and the united states never seems to pay down the principal, the amount due on the national credit card per year would be $2,292. however, this hypothetical family only has an income of $21,700, and the median family income would be around $55,000 - so, a more realistic estimate of the impact of the debt on our national family budget would be more in the $9,000/yr range, which would make it considerably less than typical mortgage + credit card operating expenses for a family

also - and somebody check my arithmetic - since the normal percentage of the annual federal budget outlay spent on debt service is about 6%, and the united states never seems to pay down the principal, the amount due on the national credit card per year would be $2,292. however, this hypothetical family only has an income of $21,700, and the median family income would be around $55,000 - so, a more realistic estimate of the impact of the debt on our national family budget would be more in the $9,000/yr range, which would make it considerably less than typical mortgage + credit card operating expenses for a family

Actually the US does pay off the principle. See, one of the places the analogy breaks down is that the debt isn't "a" credit card. It's a bunch of credit cards and other loans. We borrow, we pay them off, we borrow more. We do it on a constant cycle - but we pay every single one of them off, on time.

Actually the US does pay off the principle. See, one of the places the analogy breaks down is that the debt isn't "a" credit card. It's a bunch of credit cards and other loans. We borrow, we pay them off, we borrow more. We do it on a constant cycle - but we pay every single one of them off, on time.

And again what's not mentioned is the fact that all it takes to increase the family income is to quit giving various debters relief, and start charging more for the provided services. IOW, close the loopholes and raise the taxes.

apparently this is a family that fails to pitch in enough to take care of grandma and pay her medical bills

Actually the US does pay off the principle. See, one of the places the analogy breaks down is that the debt isn't "a" credit card. It's a bunch of credit cards and other loans. We borrow, we pay them off, we borrow more. We do it on a constant cycle - but we pay every single one of them off, on time.

What's funny is that one part of the government/household analogy that does work at the moment is that people are desperate to lend money to the US. Similarly, if you have a good credit score at the moment, you can borrow $10K for free for a year from any number of cc companies.

Actually the US does pay off the principle. See, one of the places the analogy breaks down is that the debt isn't "a" credit card. It's a bunch of credit cards and other loans. We borrow, we pay them off, we borrow more. We do it on a constant cycle - but we pay every single one of them off, on time.

yeah - but the total amount of the principal has never, as far as i know, gone down, so it's a kind of 'revolving' credit pool i guess

American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer today blew up over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), warning in a blog post that “ENDA would represent the return of Jim Crow laws.” On his radio program Focal Point, Fischer warned that if ENDA is signed into law businesses will be faced with a barrage of “flaming homosexual” job applicants. “The homosexual lobby,” Fischer said, “will send a guy in there wearing stilettos, a dress and dangly earrings” in order to provoke Christian business-owners “not to hire him.”

yeah - but the total amount of the principal has never, as far as i know, gone down, so it's a kind of 'revolving' credit pool i guess

Yes.

Which is why it's better to compare us to business than to a family, because businesses have this accounting line for long term liabilities. If you don't break them down they look like one loan that goes on forever - the principle. If you get into the full audit you see each loan gets paid off on time.

Of course if you go into that mode you have to start accurately determining assets, and you have to account for the money you left on the table (discounts/tax breaks), and all that sort of thing that makes it look better.

Effective Jan 1, 2013, aspirin will be heavily taxed under Obamacare.
The only explanation given was that
they are white and they work.
No other reason was given, but I thought you'd want to know about it.

This would not get individuals arrested. Go down to the bank and get a 90 day signature loan. Pay it off, and as it's paid off get another loan. Repeat through the year, and don't forget to get the one that carries into the next year. Do it also for longer term, multi-year loans. (You can, legally. Getting the bank to go along may be tricky, but you can.)

Is it stupid? Usually -- unless the amount that comes in can be leveraged to generate more income than you're paying in interest.

Which is why it's better to compare us to business than to a family, because businesses have this accounting line for long term liabilities. If you don't break them down they look like one loan that goes on forever - the principle. If you get into the full audit you see each loan gets paid off on time.

Of course if you go into that mode you have to start accurately determining assets, and you have to account for the money you left on the table (discounts/tax breaks), and all that sort of thing that makes it look better.

shhhh!

wingnuts are not allowed to know that large successful corporations often maintain large amounts of debt

wingnuts are not allowed to know that large successful corporations often maintain large amounts of debt

If you're good at talking, you can make heads asplode. You have to start in business mode, and you basically get the folk to agree that if you can borrow money now at a rate that is less than or equal to the inflation rate it's a good thing. Which it is, mind you. Walk them a little further and get them to agree that borrowing enough to fully restore your plant and capital equipment is really, really smart.

Then point out that the US is borrowing at rates at or just below the interest rate, and ask if they think the US government should be allowed to be as smart as businesses.

Yeah, Brian........that's EXACTLY like telling a black man or black woman that they can't order lunch or a Coca-Cola at a particular establishment after they've been working all day and their hungry or thirsty, because negro. ///s

If you transpose what they the outstanding credit card balance into a different term - let's say - mortgage, those numbers take on a slightly different connotation. Yes, there's budget problems, but a good part of that debt is due to housekeeping - the actual nuts and bolts of maintaining the nation, whether it's national defense and costs associated, or infrastructure, etc.

Not exactly frivolous costs that can be pared down.

Also our intake from the recession...loss of revenue has certainly been dramatic. Couple that with the outgoing expense of jobless benefits and other temporary social safety net spending and you could see this getting better as we recover.

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For the last three years it's been my privilege to help coach a dedicated group of young women who have founded the first Women's Flat-Track Roller Derby league in Israel. They've learned, trained, fought, and worked unbelievably hard to bring ...

Added bold is all mine. this was an awkward way to go about gun control anyway. It clearly impacts the law abiding far more than felons, and is by that definition inefficient and intrusive at best. Gonna have to do ...

Frank says:

This is Frank Zappa saying, Don't do speed. Speed turns you into your parents. -- this used to play OFTEN as a public service announcement(PSA) on radio station WHFS at 102.5 FM in bethesda,MD.USA during the early '70's. it was followed by a nearly inaudible whisper, "...but grass and acid are o.k.", which may have been frank, or one of the mothers.